Brokeback Mountain

This copy has been SIGNED by Annie Proulx on the title page! This is the "true first edition" - the first publication in book form of this extended story that originally appeared in The New Yorker. Published in the UK in this wraps edition with French Flaps. (Not to be confused with the Scribner's re-publication in connection with the movie release.) Film by Ang Lee released to high critical acclaim. Winner of the Venice Film Festival, the film has also won several Golden Globe Awards. Brokeback Mountain is set in the beautiful, wild landscape of Wyoming thirty years ago where cowboys lived much as they had done for generations. Included in "Close Range" when that title was subsequently released. Led the Academy Awards field with eight nominations - among them Best Picture and honors for actor Heath Ledger and Director Ang Lee.